Limerick to host world-renowned jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra with Wynton Marsalis

Limerick is to be honoured later in the Summer by playing host to the most famous and important Jazz ensembles on the planet. When it comes to the ultimate performers there is none higher than Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra with their incredible Artistic Director and Leader Wynton Marsalis.

The concert is part of a tour of these islands where JLCO will perform at The Edinburgh International Arts Festival followed by a concert in Dublin and then Limerick. The event is scheduled to take place on Friday, August 14, in the wonderful Limerick University Concert Hall.

Not only is it the first opportunity for a Limerick audience to see both of these huge icons of the Jazz world perform together but sadly it will also be the last as Wynton Marsalis is due to step down from his role as Managing / Artistic Director of Jazz at Lincoln Center in 2027 after nearly 40 years at the helm.

Jazz at the Lincoln Center is a beacon for the preservation and development of Jazz in the world. The mission of Jazz at Lincoln Center is to entertain, enrich and expand a global community for jazz through performance, education, and advocacy. Because jazz is swinging, it dedicates that freedom to finding and maintaining common ground with others. Because jazz is rooted in the blues, it inspires us to face adversity with persistent optimism.

Wynton Marsalis is a world-renowned trumpeter, bandleader, composer, and a leading advocate of American culture. He presently serves as Managing and Artistic Director of Jazz at Lincoln Center, the Director of Jazz Studies at The Juilliard School, and President of the Louis Armstrong Educational Foundation.

Marsalis has been called the “Pied Piper” of jazz and the “Doctor of Swing.” Since his recording debut in 1982, he has released 127 jazz, classical and alternative recordings and won many awards, from a home cooked meal to honors that require a tuxedo. He regularly performs in the most prestigious concert halls and is known to play until all hours of the morning in the most inconspicuous local clubs. From the very beginning of his career, education has been vital to his mission. He has taught and mentored a voluminous number of musicians who have gone on to play, teach and advocate in their own brilliant ways. Through these relationships Marsalis has ensured that the legacy of jazz music will continue to propagate for generations to come.

Over the past four decades, Marsalis has rekindled and animated widespread international interest in jazz through performances, educational activities, books, curricula, and relentless advocacy on public platforms. Today, Marsalis continues the renaissance that he sparked in the early 1980s, attracting new generations of young talent to jazz and illuminating the mythic meanings of jazz fundamentals.

Marsalis performs and composes across the entire spectrum of jazz and has written jazz-influenced chamber music and symphonic works for revered classical ensembles across the US and abroad. He is inspired to experiment in an ever-widening palette of forms and concepts that constitute some of the most advanced thinking in modern jazz and in American music on a broad scale.

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